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Hilariously inaccurate because of the focus on "Internet companies", a vague term at best.

Apple is missing at a market cap today of $578 billion, and whilst a lot of that is down to hardware, they have an internet office suite, the largest number of online registered users with credit cards on their DB in the World and probably shift more data than Facebook just in app downloads.

BT Group is missing from the UK despite a market cap of £30 billion. Without them, there is no UK Internet. They were developing hypertext systems in the 1980s.

Others have pointed out mistakes elsewhere in the data for other countries - I sense that without context, this data is mostly useless and uncitable.



They probably tried to focus on companies that began as internet companies. Microsoft and Apple most certainly did not. Google, Facebook, and Amazon most certainly did.


Naspers is not an Internet company, and didn't start as one. Listing Naspers is equivalent to listing Time Warner, Disney, Reuters, or Bloomberg. It's silly at best.

I'd say they filled in weak data points when it was convenient.


Not to mention that Microsoft is very much centered around the internet these days!




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